No English? No admittance, period.

[LDB]

There's an interesting program called "Air Emergency". One episode involves an Avianca Airlines jet flying from Columbia to NYC. The pilot spoke poor English, inadequate to do his job properly, and assigned all communication to the first officer. Had the pilot spoken proper English, as he should have, there would have been direct communication rather than relayed and translated, and half of the passengers might not have died. That pilot should never have been allowed to fly to this country until such time as he spoke adequate English. No English? No USA.

 

[Turtle]

That's actually already a requirement for both pilots and air traffic controllers. And it's not just the US. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) (which is under the UN and oversees international civil aviation) adopted the English language as mandatory back in 2008.

The rules outline the minimum level of English language proficiency (level 4 – operational) required by pilots and air traffic controllers with a compliance date of March 2008. As a result, applicants for, and holders of air traffic controller and pilot licenses must demonstrate their ability to speak and understand the language used for radiotelephony communications according to ICAO’s six (6) proficiency criteria: pronunciation, structure, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension and interactions…”

“Between 1976 and 2005, more than 1100 passengers and crew lost their lives in accidents in which investigators determined that air traffic control (ATCO) communications had played a contributory role (source: ICAO Journal). In order to improve air transport safety, new ICAO English language proficiency standards have recently been adopted (Amendment 164 to Annex 1).

 

[moose]

"Air Emergency" is the US trade mark, but it is a Canadian series called "Mayday".
in the U.K it is sold as "Air Crash Investigations".
I think we needs to be very careful what we allow the FAA do in regards to international flights.
you are correct that we needs to only allow safe airlines into the US, but why on earth we needs to spend tax payer money to regulate flights from Ismire to Bangladesh ?, or install automatic approach instruments landing in china's airports ?
o'h, & they where supposed to come up with a safe airlines list, for when Americans are traveling overseas, what happens to that chunk of millions ?

 

[witness23]

There's an interesting program called "Air Emergency". One episode involves an Avianca Airlines jet flying from Columbia to NYC. The pilot spoke poor English, inadequate to do his job properly, and assigned all communication to the first officer. Had the pilot spoken proper English, as he should have, there would have been direct communication rather than relayed and translated, and half of the passengers might not have died. That pilot should never have been allowed to fly to this country until such time as he spoke adequate English. No English? No USA.

Yeah!!!!!!!!